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Seoul orders all Japanese visitors to get visas, even diplomats

All Japanese citizens will need visas to enter Korea starting today, announced the Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs Friday in response to Tokyo’s slapping of quarantines on visitors from Korea over fears of the new coronavirus. Korean First Vice…

Mar 09,2020
Overcoming our tribal instincts (KOR)

CHANG HYE-SOO The author is the head of the sports news team of the JoongAng Ilbo. About 200,000 years ago, Homo sapiens appeared on earth. In fact, 200,000 years is a relatively short period of time in evolutionary terms. Humans rapidly…

Mar 09,2020
Recoveries from virus more than double

The number of people who recovered from the coronavirus more than doubled to reach 88, local health officials said Thursday, the largest number of such patients reported in a single day. The Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC) …

Mar 06,2020
An unexpected windfall (KOR)

HAN AE-RAN The author is the head of the financial news team of the JoongAng Ilbo. Working from home is not an unfamiliar practice at global companies. As employees around the world need to have conference calls or video meetings at the s…

Mar 06,2020
Gov’t proposes $9.9 billion in spending

The government proposed an 11.7 trillion won ($9.9 billion) supplementary budget on Wednesday to help an economy struggling with the coronavirus outbreak. It was the fourth and largest supplementary budget proposed by the Moon Jae-in administratio…

Mar 05,2020
Apologies for being Korean (KOR)

CHUN SU-JIN The author is a deputy editor of international news at the JoongAng Ilbo. Last week, I met an American citizen named Jose on my Korean flight coming home from a business trip to Washington. He was a passenger seated next to me…

Mar 05,2020
A nightmare revisits Japan (KOR)

YOON SEOL-YOUNG The author is a Tokyo correspondent of the JoongAng Ilbo. “Look at this!” a Japanese friend wrote as he sent me a photo of empty shelves in a supermarket. The local store had run out of toilet paper. “I went to several sto…

Mar 04,2020
Hospital beds sought for infected people from Daegu

Medical facilities across Korea are stepping up efforts to take in coronavirus patients from Daegu as nearly 1,800 people remain quarantined in their homes waiting for empty hospital beds. Infections in Korea shot up again Tuesday by 851, bringing…

Mar 04,2020
Shincheonji’s founder says sorry for role in illnesses

Lee Man-hee, founder of the Shincheonji Church of Jesus, issued an apology Monday as his secretive sect is investigated for manslaughter for refusing to cooperate to stop the deadly coronavirus outbreak. “Regarding the mass infections linked to …

Mar 03,2020
Keeping social distance (KOR)

HA HYUN-OCK The author is the head of the welfare and administration team of the JoongAng Ilbo. “Straight arm” refers to a movement in weight training keeping the arm extended straight while pulling the equipment. Last year, former U.S. …

Mar 03,2020

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